Ampro Corporation LITTLE BOARD P5X - Manual (Page 13)

Little Board/P5x Technical Manual
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4-40 nuts
PC/104 Module
PC/104 Module Plus
Little Board/P5x
Stackthrough
Expansion
Bus Headers
0.6 inch spacers
PCI Stackthrough
Headers
4-40 screws
Figure 1– 1. Stacking PC/104 Modules on the Little Board/P5x
Using Standard PC and AT Bus Cards
Ampro offers several options that allow you to add conventional 8-bit and 16-bit ISA expansion
cards to the Little Board/P5x system. Contact Ampro for further information about optional bus
expansion products.
Little Board Development Platform And Quick Start Kit
Whatever your Little Board application, there will always be a need for an engineering development
cycle. To help developers quickly assemble an embedded system, Ampro offers the Little Board
Development Platform. It includes a power supply, 3.5 inch 1.44M floppy disk drive, IDE hard
drive, speaker, I/O connectors, a backplane for ISA and PCI expansion cards, an I/O development
board (described below), and mounting studs for the Little Board.
The Development Platform provides a “known good” environment for your development work. You
can install the Little Board/P5x, MiniModules, or conventional expansion boards, keyboard,
monitor, and I/O devices to quickly create a platform for your hardware and software engineering
needs. Often, Development Platforms are used in repair and support facilities as well, and on the
production floor for system test. Contact your Ampro sales representative for more information.
The Quick Start Kit includes cables, documentation, and software needed to develop an application
with the Little Board. Unlike the Development Platform, you must supply the disk drives and
power supply. Technical drawings for the cables provided in the Quick Start Kit are included in
Appendix B.
There are other kits available from Ampro to aid in the development of your application. A Cable
Kit that includes only the Little Board/P5x cable set is available. The latching clips that fit on the
shrouded connectors on the Little Board to secure the cable connectors are available in another kit.
The Literature Set that includes the Technical Manuals and Software is also available seperately.